July 15, 2024Open Access

A quantitative study on the impact of a community falls pharmacist role, on medicines optimisation in older people at risk of falls

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The World Falls guidance includes medication review as part of its recommended multifactorial risk assessment for those at high risk of falling. Use of Falls Risk Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) along with polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden (ACB) are known to increase the risk of falls in older people.

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Crawford et al. (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e60368b6db6435875971bf https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05189-6

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